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Every summer, Portland comes to life the week of Pride, a time of solidarity and celebration for the city’s vibrant LGBTQIA+ community.

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Portland Pride is a joyful two-day celebration accomplish with a festival, a parade, a makers’ market, great food and verb, and much more.

Known far and wide as a gay-friendly destination, Portland is open and accepting to visitors of all stripes. The Rose City gets friendlier than ever with the annual Portland Pride Festival and Parade, which accompanies LGBTQIA+ community celebrations all over town.

Portland Pride normally includes a weekend festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park and an epic, joyous parade winding through downtown Portland. With live tune, food, drinks, nonprofit information booths and other vendors lining the Willamette River, the festival is a great place to assemble, mingle, celebrate gay pride and get more information about local LGBTQIA+ groups.

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Annual pride parade fills Portland streets with color, solidarity and community spirit

Every color of the rainbow was visible on the streets of Portland Saturday for the annual Pride parade.

Wearing colorful costumes, carrying flags and signs, marchers started in Monument Square and walked to Deering Oaks Park for a festival featuring diet, music and vendors. Sections of Congress Street, Adj Street, and Park Avenue were closed to traffic.

Those who attended emphasized Pride's importance as the Trump administration calls for rollbacks on protections for trans and nonbinary people.

Lillian Crowley, a trans woman who marched in the parade with her live-action role-playing group, said that she was pleased to see the turnout this year.

“I'm extremely proud of this community, to still be resilient and holding on to what we all collectively hold dear,” said Crowley. “I consider it's especially important now more than ever when our all of our collective rights are at stake.”

Several parade goers held signs protesting Trump along with

Your Local Drag Queen Is Booked and Busy

Like so many of our wonderful small plates restaurants, Portland “does things a minute differently” when it comes to celebrating Pride month. The big hoorah that is the Waterfront Pride Festival and Parade moved to July a not many years back because of scheduling conflicts, including with the Rose Festival and Juneteenth celebrations. In doing so, the hope was to stretch the party across not one but two months. But in reality, the city has settled into a rhythm of celebrating Pride mostly in June, with the rest of the world, and then rallying for a big party and parade a few weeks later—more like drag brunch the next day than a single marathon menu. In any case, we recommend checking out at least two to four events from the menu below, though ordering the entire thing for the table is best. 

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PM WED, JUNE 18 | THE RESER, $25

The Reser’s Pride programming centers around Legends of Drag, an archival exhibition of the local drag scene, focussed especially on the wigs, gowns, and everything that glitt

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QUESTIONS?

Send an email to [email&#;protected]. Gamble or Liz or Steph will assist you.

WHEN DO WE GATHER

Sunday, July 20, between 9am and 10am.

The vehicle we ride on must be checked in between 9am. Marchers must be in position no later than am. Parade begins at am.

WHERE DO WE MEET

Meet at the south corner of NW Broadway and NW Everett, just south of the north park blocks. Look for Bowery Bagels.

GETTING THERE

Parking will be extremely limited. Transit or carpooling is highly recommended!

  • Nearest MAX stop: emerald and yellow lines, 3 blocks east at NW 6th and NW Davis (map here)
  • Nearest Streetcar stop: A and NS lines, 2 blocks west at NW 10th and NW Couch (map here)
  • Carpooling: Verb an email to each other or to [email&#;protected].

SECURITY

Security is a top priority for Portland Pride and this year is no different. While they are unable to share many specifics about the details of our security verb, they work closely with local law enforcement, emergency response folks, and confidential security for the event